Reality Pump knows that most of you were disappointed by the utter mess that was its first RPG, Two Worlds, but hopes it'll a second chance to win you over with the sequel, Two Worlds: The Temptation.
*Two Worlds caught flak from reviewers *for its lousy graphics, horrendous voice acting, and clumsy interface. The Xbox 360 version was also particularly buggy, locking up with frustrating regularity.
Reality Pump acknowledges the problems, chalking it up to being overly ambitious.
"We tried to fit in every idea we had, even the ones that came late in the process," the developer told OXM.
The same mistake will not be made with The Temptation. "We clearly delineated the game's components at the start, and we're sticking to this target so the end result will be a more finely polished game," said Reality Pump.
Fans of Two World's bad Renaissance Fair-style dialog (lots of
"forsooth!"ing in that game), will be disappointed to learn that *The
Temptation's *"script is being written by someone that's worked on plenty of game dialog in the past, and is getting many more passes and edits so it will read much better," according to Reality Pump.
The overly hammy voice acting should be gone, too. The voice work for Two Worlds was actually performed by Reality Pump staff, "which I'm proud we accomplished but the end results show that it's not exactly our forte," said the developer. The sequel will feature professional voice actors.
Two Worlds was an absolute train wreck, but did have some genuinely fun and interesting ideas hidden beneath its broken exterior. If Reality Pump has, as it claims, learned the lesson of restraint, and can build off the experience it acquired making Two Worlds, then The Temptation may very well be worth a look.
See Also: Review: Two Worlds is Too Bad
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